Indersdorf Abbey

The Indersdorf Monastery was founded in 1120 by Count Palatine Otto V of Wittelsbach. It served as an atonement monastery after Otto V was involved in the capture of Pope Paschal II and subsequently excommunicated. Pope Calixtus II offered Otto V absolution from the ban if he would establish a monastery. The original St. Nicholas Chapel from 1096 formed the nucleus of the monastic complex. In 1126, Augustinian canons from the Marbach Abbey in Alsace moved into Indersdorf. The monastery church, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, Peter, and Paul, was rebuilt as a three-aisled pillar basilica after a fire in 1247. Under Provost Konrad II in the 14th century, the monastery received patronage from Emperor Louis IV and gained lower jurisdiction. The Raudnitz monastic reform, carried out in the 15th century under Provosts Erhard Brunner and Johannes von Indersdorf, led to a stricter observance of the order's rules and made Indersdorf a model monastery. In addition to a school for monastic novices, there was also a school for parish children and an extensive library. During the Thirty Years' War, the monastery suffered repeated looting and destruction. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the monastery buildings and church were renovated and expanded. In 1783, Indersdorf Monastery was dissolved with papal permission, and its assets were transferred to the Liebfrauenstift in Munich. From 1784, Salesian nuns used the buildings, operating a work school and a boarding school there. After secularization in 1803 and the relocation of the Salesian nuns in 1831, the Sisters of Mercy took over the complex in 1856 and established a custodial institution for poor and orphaned children.

The Indersdorf Monastery is situated in the municipality of Dachau in the Free State of Bavaria, Germany, at an elevation of approximately 479 meters above sea level. It is located on the right bank of the Glonn River, which separates it from the market town of Indersdorf.

The former monastery buildings are currently used by the Sisters of Mercy, who have operated an institution for children and young people there since 1856.

• Gasthof Klosterbrauerei (Monastery, approx. 70 m away)
• Kloster Weichs (Monastery, approx. 3290 m away)
• Schloss Hof (Castle, approx. 5517 m away)
• Schloss Schönbrunn (Castle, approx. 7439 m away)